1960-04-08 — Page 6

IT'S

Drawing by

Rabbi

T'S really becoming an

International

joke,

this rigid hands-clasped- behind-the-back posture adopted by male mem- berg of the royal circle.

Last month. the French magizine Paris-Match carried three pages of pictures showing that from George V to Prince Charles it is "the thing" for royal mule {0 do. walking, talking, or still.

whether

Well, you can hardly blame anyone who takes this hunched. self-effacing stance as the mark of Ó-Kayness.

I

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1960.

Patricia Lewis

Why?

We all know

this now

very familiar

hands-behind-

the-back habit

-but WHY?

Beaufort.

After a guided tour of the the grounds they re-entered house by a long hallway hung with

ancestral paintings, Van Johnson gazed wonder.

standing thing unnatural and self- relaxed look (he's obviously Mr Foxwell could get was the mansion olde Englishc conscious about Mr Armstrung done it for years), Arm- reale

the Duke of belonging to And Anally there was a giant Jones chatting gally withit strong-Jones pulls his arms photograph taken from behind

Celtic show of hands. Tony Armstrong-Jones when he

Anyway, tohy does he do it? so far back it looks uncom-

He phoned the duke, explain- Is leaning forward with hands Why do

ing Mr Johnson's request, and they all do it? My fortable...." linked somewhere red the

own theory is that I stems from

asked if they night drive over small of his back. Trumpet the the strong naval tradition run- KILGOUR FRENCH AND for a look round. The duke not headlines: "Tuny est O.K." ning through the House of STANBURY, tailors: "When only agreed but Invited them to

Mountbatten-Windsor.

mon like Armstrong-Jones is lunch. called ou

several likely elevated to a position like that sources to support me. Not all it must be sitnilor tu o actor of them did. Here is what they on a stage he doesn't know sald, ...

where to put his hands--so une

nt them..in would imagine that he found it best to copy Prince Philip.

Just "Say, it's

like at the "His clothes? A well-cut suft

to

In Hollywood," that studios inke should be able BUCKINGHAM PALACE: attitude-it all depends on the breathed. "The foyers are lined "We've absolutely no idea. Well.. pitch of the sleeves--and any with pictures of the lop stars. it may be a custom but it's much first-class aller would bear Why, would you belleve 17" he more likely to be a purely per- such a habit in mind.

exclaimed, stopping before one. gonal idiosyncrasy..."

"There's Bas!! Rathbone!" MCHEAN, ANGUS

photo grapher: "Surely it's because the ordinary nigh often puts his hands in his pockela and this

do the same thing can get would be the ultimate sin on a

formal occasion.

From his very first pictures with Princess Margaret-taken the day alter the engagement annormcement-Mr Armstrong-

Jones revealed himself an enger disciple of the Prince Philip pose.

A tradition

at the

Since then--whether opera

or the races he hasn't let up.

But whereas his future brother in law away with it, I'm afraid Mr Armstrong-Jones can't.

Maybe it's his slender build maybe it's his modest height, maybe I's his latter dny Informality Delt

there's some"

PILOT CAN SIT BACK AND WATCH

By PETER WOON

"OMET jets

are to

COMET

tost-landed without

No idea!

This stance avoids the temptation. It's not very nice to see, but it is a way out of a grievous mental dimculty. Me" No. I'd never ask anyone in pose for a photograph with his hands behind his back-unless it were a girl and 1 wanted to I show off her figure....

THE

A spy-glass

GODFREY WINN: “I always

with my

arms if I'm inspecting a factory or walking In front of a lot of people-on un occasion like that you can't put your hands In your pockets and if you just let your arms bang you lock like dummy, and if you let them swing you look like

a soldier marching.

he

the

That," corrected the Duke ut Beaufort, "is Charles First."

WOMAN

IN TRAINING...

ONE

1

to fox the "What's My lino?" exports is Mrs Florence Krumpske, trim young brunnatte from Chicago. For Mr K. is a professional bowler.

"Yes, I think I learned it in ADMIRALTY: "Yes, the Navy... the officer on naval officers do tend to aland watch always walks up and that way-it is, you might say,

down the quarter-deck with fils quite customary in the Navy hands behind his back." lie Why? Because my husband without being a naval centum.

chuckled. "You know, the only wanted thing Tony hasn't got now is a spy-gluss.

sea.

tip

"Probably Prince Philip picked it up during his days at

Why. Well, one is dis couraged from putting one's hands in one's pockets and what boelse can you do other than let them bang down at your side like a pair of great hams?

"But it's not a great naval tradition-like carrying a telescope under the left arm so that the right is free to Balute....

ROBB.

170

to

she work," "And the money's (Around £25,000

But Mrs K is also a house- wife and, as such, has found a new angle on the classic prob- lem of combining a carcer and the domestic chores. She keeps in training by swinging a flat- it at the sofa and lets fly, "It's great for my ordination," she says.

But a bit hard on the soft furnishings?

cracked. good." A HARLEY STREET TSY year.)

"I don't think CHOLOGIST: there's anything psychological about it, just purely practical. When people are under scrutiny don't know what to do they with their hands, and this is

they won't means of assuring look awkward or divert public attention with a lot of gestures. "Mind you, whereas the Prince looks quite at home, Armstrong- Jones gives the impression of

walk this having been told to way and is probably a lot more uncomfortable than if left to his. own devices.

their pilots over touching the controls.

will sit back and Their crews

fold arms us they speed into Bedford Airfield and touch down at 120 miles an hour.

who drew the hands Flying the power jels will be

the above: "It may well be a tip "George the Second"

automatic, look passed on in royal circles for completely no-hands system developed by concealing one's nervousness insider the stance it's really Bedford's Blind Landing Ex-front of a crowd.

think about it, mast perimental Unit proved in

have speakers over 1,000 touch-downs with Varsity and Canberra aircraft ..they pull their and already ordered for the play with their tie or cling to RAF.

their lapels, and in the old days sticking your thumbs in your waistcoat was the thing, so why not this?"

Revolutionary

some

"Though when you con-

the When you only

equivalent of

in public standing-at-ease

the gimmick

Army,..." left ear,

Well, what do you think?

IN SEARCH

OF A CASTLE.

•

HARD LINES

BY JAK

MAN LIVED

DOWN THER

LIGHT #

MONTHS

機

"I suppose you realise this is a non-smoker, mate?"

London Expense Service

Trouble in the

Isles of Boom

JAMAICA

0 MILES 200

Atlantic Ocean

¡BAHAMAS

Something dangerous is stirring in Paradise for tourists

From RENE MacCÓLL: Nassau, Bahamas, Thursday

it at the sofa and he say alms THE Bahamas Islands are in a state of wild and wonderful boom.

ロー

AFTER TEN LONG YEARS... COUTURIER Hardy Amies

Into

this sunny British Colony there swirls a swelling torrent of American tourists-275,000 of them are expected this year, compared with 32,000 only a decade ago.

Property values are leaping-

For many years

past the Liberal Party, virtually all-

Negro, made its appearance, were effectively run on Bay Street, the famous busi- Bahamas

That is Irritant No. 2: a black ness section of Nassau, choice by a small group of ruthlessly business men sites can set you back from single-minded

opposition party sniping away £1,000

at a white governing party, for foot

the Bay Street whites lost no United time in forming the come

Bahamian Party to counter the

to £3,000 a frontage known as the Bay Street

Boys"

There is no tax on either in-

nr capital gains,

ly back on the weed no inheritance tax on land, again after 10 years' ab stinence.

а

famous

“Trade wind'

names,

have

coloured

Buf

although Bahamians are well Comparison with the

pald and

in

of

working P.LF.

Ugly

Irritant number bree, by far

masses in the other Islands the Caribbean arbu, their living are more often than conditions # situation in I sat next to him at a dinter

So shug O

world not pretly wretched: tax-ridden French for glyun

1-the designer generally

So that's irritant No. Michael Gonia and noticed him

has meant that hundreds of

"have nots" resentful the ugliest, proved to be a co- berate campaign of racial de- overseas companies, many with black at puffing rather unhappily

incor about the while "haves,"

fostered cigarette:

The situation should have fiance unleached and.

member "Isn't it awful," he sighed, porated subsidiaries here.

and then the Is there then no flaw in this been eased in 1950 when the by Cyril Stephenson,

respected newspaper editor of the Colony's House of As- Ivan "ten years.

other day I suddenly found superb picture, this touristic Eilenne Dupuch (rhymes with tembly and general secretory myself smoking almost uncon- Nirvand of coral beaches and theoch) succeeded in putting of the P.L.P. sclously."

turquoise sea?

Yes, olas, there is. Mr His cigarette stubbed, No, thank you I'll wall Amies

What Mr Macmillan might offered another.

all a "trade wind of change is blowing around here. It has the cigars," he said.

Ah, me: The pleasures of the brought one of the worst and most insidious of the evils which plague our world race hatred, -London Express Service).

Now the Minister of Aviation, Mr

THE CENTRAL SCHOOL OF Thuncan Sandys, who is anxious

"It's to bring the revolutionary SPEECH AND DRAMA:

to do benefits of the system to civit unlikely it has anything

instructed flying, has

that with nervousness or pubile TILM producer Comets should be used.

speaking. After

naval al,

("Touch of Larcony") Chosen for the task are two officers have always walked the Foxwell tells a neat story of

Ministry of Aviation aircrafi | quarier-deck with hands behind that have been used to prepare the back-It's an unwritten when Van Johnson was

it's probably some house-guost at his country the Comet 4's for service with law-and Bone and BEA.

thing passed on to Armstrong- home. They will be fitted out with the Jones by Prince Philip.

that It seems "Though whereas the

wanted to see

radio-ultimeter and computing

equipment that provides auto-Prince does it with such a Engilshe castle

matle landing for an extra weight of only 1001b., and a cost of about £5,000.

The radio-timeter gives the correct rate DE descent, throttles back the engines and "kicks off" any drift caused by wind! Magneto loader cables, buried along the edges of the runway, deed information into the air- craft computers, which keep it heading for this centre of the Tunway.

Safoty

This is the system to end the hazards of fog and bad wes- ❘ther and to bring much greater safety to flying for 30 per

X cent of all air necidants are at

Jarking.

are both

Britain's now generation of joie, the DE131 for BEA, and the VC 10 for Bosc., being Alted with the radius ultimator part of the system. And it is the, Comets, expected. to start their operations at Bedford in the autumn, which | will pave jan way.

(London Explode Betolke).

Mr Johnson a reale olde palate. but the closest

WOR

for

un end to race discrimination In public places. But suspicion and

discernible Negro facial cheras- teristics..

He smiles costly and often His pretty wife is white and holls fren England

'Dictator'

"They call me a

soy

would-be dictator," sald Stephenson. "They

I aspire to be another Nkrumah, It is not so. "Do we want sovereign inde- pendence for the Bahamas? No, no. We rely on Britain too much. But we do want to bo fully in charge of our own in- ternal affairs."

"Now what about alt this racial incltement?" I asked.

Stephenson sindled and waved his hand, "Ah," he said, "when you're running for office you have to say a few things you. may not strictly mean."

Over now to Bay Street and Into the office of one of the lending "Boys" Foster Clarke, relaxati a lawyer, elegant, pleasant, murmured; "Let's face t-we are outnumbered. Wo consider the racial hatred foster- ed by our opponents to be utterly detestable."

Any truth in the reports that some powerful Bay Streeters talk of seceding to the US.?

Not yet, saya Clarke, Apart from anything else, the Bahamian would find themselves toaded with stiff taxes.

"But anyway 93 per cent of this Colony, white or us in coloured, are sailed with their British heritage and con- nection. We could not without her."

survive

-fLondon Express Service).

TALKING

POINTS

A briant converand tionalist is one who talka to you about yourself.

-LISA KIRK

Mr Stephenson, In hla dislike of the "boys' persisted.. pleasant living-room above the offices of the weekly newspaper In 1953 they had been almost which he edits with such vigour, time seriously proved to be a floridly hund- for the first challenged by a political opposi- some pale-skinned man in his kept than recovered.

Progressive early foriles with only faintly

on,

when the

WUND HAN

Flo in criticised for not taking enough interest in the

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zf' në të ushot' abîmula Mirifier, scratch on the

onfied

But if he fmiko

to clean it, he is

camunt.

fle is censured for putting pa

weight....

But if to falin lo ent all Ila wild's cooking he l

again consured...

- ilk så under m'cloud' for

fot ourning

money

indra

Character is much easier

-THOMAS PAINE;

Camming

Bat' if he stuyê' late at the office, cultivată ing an ulcer. he's lá tròubfo for leaving bla

wife alone!

London: Bebrene Berriot